What to do when your emotions get the best of you and that hot mess of a person sets in and takes over your mind.

What about when you just get so much stuff in your head and you end up losing the ability to focus on self-care? It’s not that you don’t understand how important it is. We know that when we neglect ourselves we eventually, slowly, and painfully become an emotionally exhausted hot mess.
Well, that hot mess is what you are getting today.

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We all know how important self-care truly is, I’ve spoken about it before and will continue to do so even if I stumble and neglect my own self-care from time to time.

This past week, well honestly, the few weeks prior as well, have really played havoc on my mind. Things have been so busy with so many emotions! Good, bad, happy, ecstatic, lonely, regretful, confused, loved, hated, suffocated, and many more emotions!

“You get it, right?”

From the amazing trip out to visit my son and his now-fiancee in Edmonton, to seeing the beauty of the mountains in Western Canada and breathing that fresh air that is like no other, to the visit with my Aunt who I haven’t seen in over 20 years, to the trip to Halifax for my daughters surgery, to the trip to Church Point NS to celebrate my fiance’s moms 80th bday and meeting his sister from BC, to spending some time with my gorgeous redhead girl in Halifax, and now, being home as my girl recovers from her surgery, to say emotions have been running wild is to put it mildly!

Now don’t get me wrong, as much as I may sound pouty or ungrateful, that is the farthest from the truth you could get! I am beyond grateful for so many things and I think that is part of my problem too. There is just so much going on in my brain it is all like a bowl of cooked spaghetti noodles. All the noodles intertwined just like all the emotions. Imagine having a bowl of cooked spaghetti and how delicate those noodles are, try to pull just one out without breaking it, and then trying to finally focus on that one noodle. Well, I’m that noodlebrain these days.

Noodlebrain: Someone who is a bit confused…..

Urban Dictionary

Now, while I am great at offering suggestions to others who may feel like this, for me to do this for myself, well heck no, that just ain’t happening. BUT, it has to happen because no one can go on living like a noodlebrain forever, right?
I need to say that because I know this is just a bump in my journey and there will be many more bumps but those bumps won’t last forever, nor will that noodlebrain feeling.
So, despite the fact I really feel like I have don’t have the energy to carry on and to sort out this gosh darn noodlebrain, here I am venting at all of you and saying to myself, girl you gotta do this.

“You gotta do this, “

So for all of you who can relate to the noodlebrain feeling or the feeling of being too tired to carry on, I challenge you to look at you and why ” YOU, gotta do this” Try and put aside the noodle bowl mind for a few seconds at a time and really look at your OWN why’s. Despite that jumble of intertwined emotions, you are an amazing person and YOU have reasons that can help remind you of your own why’s.

Look at you, what are your reasons ‘Why’ ” YOU, gotta do this?

I am going to share with you some of my WHY’s, in case you need some help getting your own list going. These are just random why’s for me, not listed in any order of priority, they all carry there own weight. Bottom line is, it doesn’t matter what you’re WHY’s are, it just matters that you remember them and do what’s needed to keep going, to keep working on sorting those emotion noodles, with gentleness and grace, as slow as YOU need to!

Some of my ‘Whys’

A. My posts about our Scoliosis journey, have led to a fellow “scoliosis girl” mom in another province to reach out to me. I received a ding from my Facebook notification as I was stuck in my noodlebrain. Stuck hating life and wondering what my purpose is. Sounds dumb I know, but I really was in a dark place at that moment. Her message made my day and brought me out of that dark place. So, that WHY is because even in my darkest of times, simply by sharing stories in my blog, which forces me to stay focused, it’s connecting people with people in a great way that really helps.

B. Friends that really matter, those who can relate to the emotional noodle jumble need my noodlebrain! Yep, believe it or not, even when we feel like complete noodlebrains, chatting with fellow noodlebrains really helps. Those friends can help you realize that it really is ok, and that jumble can be dealt with, one emotion at a time. Noodlebrains, helping noodlebrains, one noodle at a time! Please laugh when you read that!!

C. Reconnecting with “long lost” family members, this is a huge one for me! nuf said on that one! I will hopefully elaborate on that WHY in a later blog!

D. My wonderful immediate family!! Daughters to be here for, sons too and a soon to be daughter in law too!! Weddings to be planned, mine and also my boys. Grand kiddies from my fiances family, that we get to watch grow and amaze us all the time!

E. The final WHY I will share for now is this; I am sure all the bumps and turns that my journey has brought me so far are for a reason. I have no idea about the exact reason, or reasons and don’t think it really matters. By sharing my journey, I hope that all my bumps and turns will help others along their own journeys. Personally, I have found so much support and comfort from the experiences that others have shared about their own bumps and turns. So this final WHY, is ‘ to share my stories with others and perhaps bring some comfort and support for them on their own journey.

Now that I have sort of loosened up that noodle pile in my brain, and forced myself to focus on my WHY’s, I shall leave you all for now. I am going to work on a 30-day blog challenge, I think this will help keep me focusing on the positives and give me the strength to gently start ‘unclumping ‘all these intertwined emotions and allow me to share a bit of how that goes!

Join me on this challenge, start your own blog, add it to your existing blog, or simply challenge yourself to comment on mine !

I encourage you all to share one of your own WHY’s below, or share how you work at unjumbling your own noodlebrain. Be sure to follow me and to subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss anything this noodlebrain has to share!

Until next time my noodlebrain and non-noodlebrain friends, be kind to yourself and look out for others.